Orbital blow-out fracture - medial

Case contributed by Frank Gaillard
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Motor vehicle accident months earlier.

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This patient suffered a direct blow to the left orbit during a motor vehicle accident some months earlier. This resulted in a medial blow-out fracture through the lamina papyracea into the middle ethmoidal air-cells with extrusion of orbital fat, but no extraoccular muscle entrapment.

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